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by abrogard
Tue Nov 04, 2025 7:44 pm
Forum: Introduction & How To Join
Topic: 10 Year Hiatus
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Views: 118

10 Year Hiatus

This board has been 'up' since '13 but for most of that time has been 'down'.

It got savagely spammed before the admin was ready for it and was unable to deal with it. Whilst attempting to do that it got corrupted so that it didn't work right. All kinds of problems. Over 40,000 spurious spam posts ...
by abrogard
Tue Nov 04, 2025 7:26 pm
Forum: Introduction & How To Join
Topic: How To Work the Thing.
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How To Work the Thing.

Just one litle thing might be helpful: moving around via the top menu bar.

Up the top of the screen there is the 'banner' :phpBB etc and beneath that the 'quick links' icon and words and beneath that a bar beginning with a little home icon.

Clicking on that bar is the way to get to those places ...
by abrogard
Tue Nov 04, 2025 7:20 pm
Forum: Favourite Books
Topic: Christianity before Christ.
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Views: 106

Christianity before Christ.

Christianity Before Christ.
John G Jackson.

Very scholarly work showing how all the features of Christianity were present in all the old myths way back before ever Christian times.
The very origin being in fact a anthropomorphised version of the journey of the sun through the heavens.

The very ...
by abrogard
Thu May 27, 2021 5:47 am
Forum: Reviews
Topic: The Wake Up Call
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Views: 4111

The Wake Up Call

By John Micklethwaite and Adrian Wooldridge

the first an editor in chief of bloomberg and the other the political editor of the economist.

Starts of looking like a piece of crap It is a piece of crap. With its take on the covid. The nature of it makes me suspect the veracity or perspicacity of ...
by abrogard
Fri Nov 29, 2019 4:53 am
Forum: Music Books
Topic: 150 Of The Most Beautiful Songs Ever
Replies: 0
Views: 7136

150 Of The Most Beautiful Songs Ever

Manuscript book. For beginners.

Treble Cleff. Simplified music all in the key of C. Lyrics to every song.

Chord names printed large and clearly. Just the Root chord or the Minor - like 'C' or 'Cm'. Inside a square above the stave. Very easy to see. Ithas a few other chord suggestions - usually a ...
by abrogard
Tue Mar 20, 2018 11:35 am
Forum: Favourite Books
Topic: A Couple Of Good Ones.
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Views: 5284

A Couple Of Good Ones.

Haven't had the time or inclination recently ( year? or two? ) to post anything here but I've read a lot of good books during that time.

I'll see if I can remember any of them - the last two, certainly:

I Contain Multitudes Ed Yong. About bacteria and their ubiquity, their nature, their ...
by abrogard
Sun Oct 09, 2016 7:41 pm
Forum: Reviews
Topic: GIRT
Replies: 0
Views: 3632

GIRT

GIRT
David Hunt. 2013
Good publication: Coarse paper, wide gutter, margins. Clear black print double spaced.
Book opens flat, paperback about A5. 274pp.

This book paints the most horrifying picture of life in the late 18th Century in England and, of course, the new colony in Australia.

Life was ...
by abrogard
Fri Apr 29, 2016 1:28 am
Forum: Reviews
Topic: The Cygnus Mystery
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Views: 3793

The Cygnus Mystery

The Cygnus Mystery
Andrew Collins
Watkins Publishing London 2006

Hardback. 350pp Semi - Stiff white pages, almost gloss. Smallish font. Wide gutter. Almost opens flat.
Some black and white illustrations.

He sets out to demonstrate the importance of the constellation Cygnus throughout the ages to ...
by abrogard
Tue Apr 12, 2016 3:29 am
Forum: pendingreview
Topic: The Map of Heaven
Replies: 0
Views: 6468

The Map of Heaven

The Map of Heaven
'How Science, Religion and Ordinary People Are Proving The Afterlife'
Eben Alexander, M.D.
Pan McMillan Australia 2014

Pleasant little book about the author's conviction that there is an afterlife. He experienced a NDE (Near Death Experience).
Came back to life and remembered the ...
by abrogard
Tue Apr 12, 2016 3:13 am
Forum: pendingreview
Topic: The Road to Serfdom
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Views: 3398

The Road to Serfdom

The Road To Serfdom
F.A.Hayek
George Routledge and Sons 1944

A book on politics, essentially the politics of communism or socialism and why they cannot work.

I haven't finished it. Bit hard to read. No spaces between the paragraphs. Long compound sentences - might take up a whole para. Not simple ...